{"product_id":"thousand-years-waiting-and-other-plays-by-chiori-miyagawa-9780857420206","title":"Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa’s \u003cem\u003eThousand Years Waiting and Other Plays\u003c\/em\u003e explore themes of memory and identity. Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates—they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders—emotionally (as in \u003cem\u003eAwakening\u003c\/em\u003e), physically (as in \u003cem\u003eComet Hunter\u003c\/em\u003e) or socially (as in \u003cem\u003eBroken Morning\u003c\/em\u003e), and the line that separates life and death is thin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the title play, a woman in New York City begins to live in the world of a thousand-year-old Japanese memoir that she is reading. The characters in \u003cem\u003eLeaving Eden\u003c\/em\u003e enter, exit, and re-enter Anton Chekhov’s Russia from 1887 to 1904, only to end up at a wedding reception in 2005 in New York where Chekhov appears and takes a seat at a table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the 1899 Kate Chopin novella of the same name, \u003cem\u003eAwakening\u003c\/em\u003e follows Edna in her journey toward death, through fragmented childhood memories and visions of freedom. \u003cem\u003eRed Again\u003c\/em\u003e begins after Sophocles’s Antigone dies. She lands in Buddhist bardo, contemplating the history of human violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Chiori Miyagawa adamantly refuses to provide those signposts that more comforting dramatists leave to reassure audiences. The force of her work lies in its jarring historical and cultural discontinuities, its mixture of brutality and beauty, its disorienting verbal and visual impact.”\u003c\/em\u003e—Martin Harries, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603335954668,"sku":"9780857420206","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857420206-thousand-years-waiting-and-other-plays.jpg?v=1778060091","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/thousand-years-waiting-and-other-plays-by-chiori-miyagawa-9780857420206","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}